Tuesday, June 26, 2007
Filed under: Other — Malcolm Owen @ 1:10 pm
Ladies and Gentlemen, I’m worried as to how things are going with the legal systems of today. Many miscarriages of justice, where the guilty go free or severely under-punished whilst the innocent get put away and abused by some truck driver called Bubba who’s in for murder and hasn’t felt the touch of a woman in years, sicken me. How can systems put in place to help society as a whole do so much wrong too?
That said, there is one case that I think the US legal system has done right.
Roy “Judge in Administrative Law” Pearson took the company “Custom Cleaners” to court, because he took the interpretation of the “Satisfaction Guaranteed” sign to the extreme. That’s $54 Million extreme.
Judge Pearson had taken his pants to the cleaners, only for 2 days later for them to be missing. Days later, the cleaners found the pants and tried returning them to the Judge, only for him to say they aren’t his. Cue him suing for various reasons, including keeping the sign up each day, and the cost of getting a cab to go to another dry cleaners every week.
Now, I’m not too sure about these things, but if a dry cleaning business was worth $54 Million, these people would have a chain of stores, instead of just a single location. Also, the cleaners offered to replace the pants too, but the Judge wouldn’t accept that courtesy. He just wanted the big money.
Judge Pearson lost. Thankfully. He may still appeal, but it’s doubtful that he will succeed.
[Via BBC News]
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Monday, June 11, 2007
Filed under: Gaming, Other — Malcolm Owen @ 7:47 pm
So, yesterday the housemates told me of a new gambling machine at the local arcade, themed with Pac-Man. My gaming sense started tingling, and it wasn’t long before I could see what they meant by “Cool”. It was a coin pusher game, but if you could get the coins to get through specific gates before it reached the top shelf of the moving stairs, it played a Puzzle Bobble game in the centre screen, from which more coins can spit out. Yes, it was Pac-Man Ball, and it’s explained better here.
So, using my winnings from the newest coin pushing machine, I went to the ticket games, and won a stupid amount thanks to some bouncing ball game. What did I do with these tickets? Why, I bought a tin of poker chips, and with the change got some sweets and 2 bouncy balls. Hurrah!
These chips look exactly like the ones I bought from Tesco, meaning that I now have a stupidly large amount of poker chips. When laid out on a table, it makes me feel really quite rich. Seriously, if you were in Vegas with this many chips, you’d be feeling rich too…
Yes! I’m Rich! Rich I tells ye! John Chow ain’t got nothing on me, damnit!
Well, I can dream, can’t I?
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Tuesday, May 15, 2007
Filed under: Other — Malcolm Owen @ 9:44 pm
Answer: A lot of scratches and that’s about it.
User sxenko decided to do so, and half expecting a page of light, I saw instead a lot of black and some scratches. The light of a scanner is offset from the reader, angled as well, to minimize direct reflections from the source material. Those scratches are either on the mirror or on the scanner’s glass surface, leaving a nice effect not too dissimilar to marble.
[Via Digg]
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Thursday, March 15, 2007
Filed under: Other — Malcolm Owen @ 11:33 pm
Some random linkage for the moment…
Rap-Cat - Originally, and still an advert, for a fast food chain in America. An odd idea, but at least it’s different to those McDonald’s ones. Heck, there’s even a song(?) to download too. Seriously weird.
Destructoid Turns One - Congratulations, you’ve made it past a year of life. Stupid amounts of traffic, a vast community, and a guy with a robotic head. You deserve any praise you get.
The Joel on Software Bionic Office - If ever Stick of Wrong Studios gets done properly, I want my offices just like these. But more green…
Ryan’s Public Diet - Every Wednesday over at Dethroner, there’s gonna be a post and photo (…ok…) showing where Ryan has got to on some MediFast diet system. The public nature will probably force him to stick with it more than most other fatties would. Like me. I’ll stick to my Paul Mckenna CD…
Normew service mew returrrrr tomorrow.
(Must stop listening to that song…)
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Tuesday, March 13, 2007
Filed under: Other, Tech — Justin Lee @ 1:42 am
The first idea of buying a portable in car GPS came to me after a few visits to Los Angeles for E3, with such a massive city I needed a GPS to navigate around. I would often pay about $5 USD to rent a GPS from Hertz; it just seemed like money wasted. So I waited for a GPS that got decent reviews to go on sale. Last week the Mio C310S (Called Mio C310sx in the United States) had the price slashed by $100 to $250 CAD.
I must admit, the Mio C310S was quite enjoyable for the first few random trips I entered into it; even though I knew where I was going I wanted to ensure it would: A) Give me accurate directions B) Ample warning of difficult highway circles C) Points of Interests and D) Easy to use interface. Unfortunately, it failed in all four points most of the time. (more…)
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Monday, March 12, 2007
Filed under: Japan, Other, Video — Malcolm Owen @ 11:09 pm
Everyone knows that the Japanese love weird, freaky stuff. That is a fact. Cue a video over at TV In Japan about someone putting a strange liquid into a speaker, and seeing it “Bubble” in a semi-paranormal way. If you remember that it’s inside a speaker and suffering a bombardment of vibrations, then you’ll see it’s a fairly normal effect that Non-Newtonian Liquids can do.
Non-Newtonian Liquids, to try and cut down the amount of text that Wikipedia gives you, is a liquid/solid that’s confused. If left alone, it will turn into a liquid, but if impacted in some way, it becomes more solid. For example, you can easily roll some into a ball using your hands, kneading constantly. once you stop, it turns runny and flows through your fingers quite easily. Heck, you can even run on it, since the sudden application of foot to liquid solidifies it enough to support your weight temporarily.
No, I don’t know how or why any of this works, but I figure you might want to see the freakiness you can do with Cornstarch and Water yourself, then dare to mess up your kitchen experimenting as well…
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Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Filed under: Apple, Other — Malcolm Owen @ 11:38 pm
Quick Post:
Dude, that Apple G4 Fishtank rocks. I want one. And some fish too.
(I said it was a quick one)
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Monday, February 26, 2007
Filed under: Apple, Other, Tech — Malcolm Owen @ 9:41 pm
My sister, Charlotte, has a new credit card with an obscenely large credit limit. The computer she’s borrowing from a family member has also unceremoniously died, with a dead hard drive. So it was no surprise she was suddenly in the market for a new laptop.
I talked to her about the possibilities of buying cheaply online from a few retailers, the fact that there’s free replacements for expensive software, and the possibility of crossing over to the Mac side. She didn’t want to wait for a delivered laptop, so we headed into a retail park.
More specifically the Currys.Digital in Swansea for a “Closing Down Sale” they had going at the moment.
No, a large UK chain of stores is not closing down. In this case they’re just crossing the road to a bigger establishment. And that’s a brilliant excuse to hold a sale.
Although you might think a closing down sale is fantastic, there are many downsides, some less obvious than others.
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Monday, February 19, 2007
Filed under: Other, Video — Malcolm Owen @ 11:03 am
You’re in a dead-end job with little or no hope of ever getting to a higher position. You hate your constant walk-in, work, walk-out existence, with no happiness in what you do every day. You need a change of direction. As a zen-thinking monk would say, “Sometimes the best direction that an individual can take is out of the company”.
So you have cracked. You don’t want to work in your own personalised version of Hell. You want to leave, but you want to go in a way the other people there would remember for years. You want to do it with style.
This guy does, via the power of 2001: A Space Odyssey and a marker pen.
That’s quitting with style.
[Via JohnQ's Blog]
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Wednesday, February 14, 2007
Filed under: Midweek Movie, Other — Malcolm Owen @ 10:11 am
Today is Valentine’s Day.
It’s a horrible day of the year, where people are forced into romancing other unwilling participants in the hope of an evening meal at an overpriced and overbooked restaurant, an enjoyable time at a club that’s in heavy romance mode, and some late night action in bed. All the single people will be persecuted by those in relationships, egged on by “Better Knowing” elder family members to find that special someone, just so they can take their “Singleton” mental label off you.
And if you’ve tried to do something romantic for someone you love but are not dating currently, and they ditch you for someone else, you will feel bitter that you failed to score. You will feel rejected, unhappy and vengeful.
Because we know full well that watching Four Weddings and a Funeral will push you over the edge, what better way to celebrate Valentine’s Day with some gratuitous killing?
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